Peak oil confusion
If antagonistic commentators actually understood what they were talking about, it might help focus the debate about the liquid fuels problem facing large oil consumers now and in the future.
Media & Communications
Peak oil – Jan 8
US News & World Report spotlights The Oil Drum
Richard Heinberg radio interview
Al Jazeera on peak oil: ice-skating in the desert
The Star on Post Carbon Toronto
ASPO-Australia call for petrol rationing
Howstuffworks improves peak oil coverage
Peak oil and the Australian army
Yergin: $100 oil ‘tells a lot of what’s going on in the world’
The services we seek
It is only half a discussion to talk about the things we’ll have to give up after peak oil and not about the ways in which we’ll obtain the services those things represent.
Hear no peak
Just as the Financial Times’ news coverage of oil was beginning to improve, a recent article goes and spoils it with a truly shoddy analysis.
Climate – Dec 18
Bali climate plan looks beyond Bush’s tenure
Teacher’s climate message goes global (4 million views on YouTube)
How it all ends
Desperate times, desperate scientists
The peak oil crisis: the NY Times drops the first shoe
Drawing on the combined wisdom of no less than seven of their reporters strung out around the earth, the New York Times boldly concluded that “The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast that their need for energy within their borders is crimping how much they can sell abroad.”
The Story Of Stuff: free video unmasks consumer culture
A new short film released today online takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.
What should members of the peak oil movement call themselves?
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
Peak Oil News Network – Nov 29
Monitoring news for the peak oil community:
The Bullroarer (Australia-NZ)
DrumBeat (U.S.)
Finance, Earth and Energy Roundups (Canada)
Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (UK)
Media – Nov 29
Society of Environmental Journalists: Guide to information and disinformation about climate change
Cold Facts: good climate documentary waffles
News reporting faces web challenge, warns New York Times editor
The newspaper in the days of digital anarchy
Off course again
After reading yet another climate denial piece by Bjorn Lomborg, Bill Henderson remembers the time the herring boat he was on went off course in strange waters in the middle of the night. He was furious then at those who allowed the boat to drift into danger, and he’s furious now.
Oil industry – Nov 27
Big Oil PR blitz suggests the un-reformed industry just wants to be friends – so shut up!
Gail the Actuary’s visit to Shell’s Brutus off-shore oil/gas platform
Oil and gasoline prices: The crack spread
So much money in environmental devastation that it can’t be stopped?
